http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/Thailand/Central-Thailand/Rayong/ Travel adventures in journals and photos from Asia , Thailand , Central Thailand , Rayong en-us Wed, 09 Dec 09 18:32:28 +0000 Wed, 09 Dec 09 18:32:28 +0000 As many of you know our church has been caught up in planning this year's English Camp. Every year we invite students from Ramkhamhaeng University to join us for a three day camp over a Buddhist holiday. I am pleased to report that this year's camp was a smashing success.We started the day early meeting at 600 for prayer before the campers arrived for registration. This is probably the bigges http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/Thailand/Central-Thailand/Rayong/blog-418887.html Some of you have asked where we actually live i.e. home. Here are a few pics of our home and surrounding area. http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/Thailand/Central-Thailand/Rayong/blog-405514.html These past few days have been pretty slow as we hoped they would be since today we take off for Cambodia and then to Vietnam. We basically spent the week in Rayong swimming with the kids and lying in the sun. One of the days we hired a boat and took it to Ko Mannai and Ko Mannok two islands so close you can see them from the house. The first is a turtle sanctuary and the second is its neighbo http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/Thailand/Central-Thailand/Rayong/blog-385687.html After arriving safely and sneaking through customs at Bangkok International Airport we were greeted by Na Gig Na Dam and Na Ting who escorted us to their apartment just outside Bangkok where we stayed the night. The next morning the whole family packed up and we left for Rayong to Bettys Momrsquos beach house. The next few days consisted of relaxing with family basking in the sun bathing http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/Thailand/Central-Thailand/Rayong/blog-380491.html We are about 2 hours south of Bangkok and about 15 minutes by scooter to the Gulf of Thailand. On a map this would be about 45 minutes from Rayong and about 13 kilometers from the small town of Ben Phe which is the jumping off harbor to the touristy island of Kho Samet. While 13k in Canada is not far to travel here in rural Thailand there is much to see and experience even in this small dis http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/Thailand/Central-Thailand/Rayong/blog-334091.html Thailand 6th of July to the 4th of august.Banphe 12th to the 15thwith Phloie Craig Bandith Poofy and Theo.So we arrived to banphe and to the house 2 find kats old room ready for us.I got to meet Kats and bandiths little sister Phloie 14 years with a bubbly personality. The little dog poofy and when he arrived their father Craig. Here we went out driving with the mopeds eating breakfast on th http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/Thailand/Central-Thailand/Rayong/blog-184135.html Where to start Got to Heathrow airport only to find out we had been UPGRADED to the executive suite thanks to Graeme's sister. Spent 7 hours in there eating food and drinking beer for about 7 hours FOR FREE Also found out that we had been upgraded on the plane to the more expensive seats towards the front of the plane not exactly first class but there was more legroom your own t.v. etc etc. http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/Thailand/Central-Thailand/Rayong/blog-167990.html Kate For our final teaching practise on the course we taught the monks in the Temple School. This was a different experience because they were older all teenagers. Also it was different for the girls because women are not allowed to touch monks. So when we wanted to hand out materials or pens or whatever we had to put it on a chair or a table and let them pick it up. It was difficult to remember http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/Thailand/Central-Thailand/Rayong/blog-162575.html Kate At the moment we are spending the weekend in Bangkok after a couple of very tiring weeks. We are now coming to the end of our TEFL course and next Thursday will go and meet the school who have the great honour of having us work for them for the next 4 months. At the Temple school Last week we had a full week of lessons at the Temple school learning how to become teachers and about the in http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/Thailand/Central-Thailand/Rayong/blog-155286.html